Abstract

GRIS, Gabriele; ALVES, Hans Werner; ASSIS, Grauben José Alves  and  SOUZA, Silvia Regina de. The use of adapted games for assessment of mathematics and monetary skills. Temas psicol. [online]. 2017, vol.25, n.3, pp. 1139-1152. ISSN 1413-389X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.9788/TP2017.3-12Pt.

This study aims to evaluate the effects of adapted games over preschool child performance in arithmetic and monetary abilities. The subjects were eight children of Childhood Education, distributed in two Experimental Groups. For both groups, using adapted dominos, the following relations were taught and tested: printed numerals (A), dot sets (B), addition operations (C), printed values (D), pictures of bank-notes/coins (E). First, relations AB/BA and AC/CA were taught, testing BC/CB relation. Later, relation DC/CD was taught and relations AD/DA and DB/BD were tested. Finally, relation DE/ED was taught and relations EB/BE, EC/CE and AE/EA were tested. Evaluations of stimulus naming were conducted in Pretest, Probe and Posttest stages. For Group one, the evaluations of stimuli naming were conducted via card display, and for Group two were used adapted games. Evaluation results suggest that the use of adapted games may contribute to lower tests variability in stimuli naming.

Keywords : Games; arithmetic (mathematic); money handling; relationship network; domino.

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